Thanks Heiko, much appreciated. Shane ...
On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:24:00 +0200 Heiko Carstens wrote: > Or in other words: Linux is not aware if memory is local or remote. > However the cpu topology is known (that is: which cpu belongs to which > book) and the Linux kernel makes use of this in building scheduling > domains (multi-core scheduling) accordingly and then tries to keep > processes on a book instead of migrating them back and forth. > With z196 another cache level was introduced. Linux kernel support for > this should be merged upstream with the upcoming 2.6.37 kernel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
